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First off, I'm not a huge fan of that article. Instead, the OP should link to the umich article. It's much less sensationalist and contains more of the actual science.

I also want to clear up that cytochrome c is not actually a molecule involved in photosynthesis. Rather, it is an electron carrier in cellular respiration. Minor difference, but it makes me nervous about the validity of the rest of the article.

Anyway... this is mostly just a step in the right direction. From what I gather, the paper doesn't really claim to have created an important application for this yet. This is just the basis for future development, which could take quite awhile. What they've done is figured out a mechanism to create self assembling complexes of biological molecules and inorganic (created) materials (in this case, a semi conductor).

In their experiment they were able to make these complexes convert nitrate (NO3-) to nitrite (NO2-) and O2. Nitrate is toxic at high levels in water, but in most circumstances it never gets high enough (it usually happens on farms near lakes/rivers where too much fertilizer was used). The problem they ran into is that this process eventually degraded the complexes enough to where they didn't work any longer, something they can work on fixing.

Is that service within the stadium (at least in the student section) is absolutely terrible. Getting a single text message through can take at least 50 tries. Attempting to load a website/espn app? Good luck. Maybe in the next few years it will get better, but for now fan vision sounds like it'd be a pretty useful thing, though I've never seen or used one.

iPad. I'd recommend a Windows 8 tablet to anyone in college (I have an asus vivotab smart), but an iPad is much easier to use and play games on comparatively and by the time he'll really need it for other things there will probably be better options available.

I would love to see the 4th and 15 replace the onside kick, but only as an option. You could also do a normal kick off, because those are part of the excitement too (obviously, the opposing coach would be given knowledge as to the decision made).

Although just being a freshman, I just emailed the alumni association regarding this. I feel like if we can get the thousands upon thousands of alumni that don't read this blog to learn about this, the number of backers and amount of money given will skyrocket. Because let's be honest, $16,000 is a lot of money, but 400 backers isn't nearly that many considering what could and should be happening with this charity right now.

Go back thorough Greg Mattison's coaching career and look at the turnover margin of every single team he has coached. You'll see a lot of plusses, and no minuses (at least none as far back as I looked). There's not even many small plusses (plus two or something).

I for one believe that turnovers are not random, but are in fact mainly a result of coaching style. Take Mattison's: Very aggressive, very blitzy.

How does this result in his positive turnover margin? Well if you're sending more people on the blitz you're probably putting more pressure on the quarterback and forcing him to make reads faster and under more strain. Thus, a higher possibility of a duck that results in an interception.

Heck, I'd even suggest that an aggressive style can result in more fumble recoveries. If you have a blitz on, you probably have more players in the box than normal (or at least, more players close to the LOS). This can give you a numbers advantage in covering the ball. Sure, the football may bounce random, but if you have 6 players near the ball when it comes loose and the other team has 5, you have a higher chance of getting it.

That's not even to mention how I'd postulate that better defenses in general, regardless of playing style, are more likely to have a + turnover margin (just like better offenses are more likely to not turn it over). If you have cornerbacks that can blanket a reciever, you're more likely to get interceptions. Better defensive line? Hitting the running back in the backfield forces more passing downs, and is also probably more of a surprising hit for the back resulting in a higher chance of fumble. Then, of course, sacks can cause fumbles a lot of the time and a better line will probably get you more sacks. And so forth.

Looking at the FBS as a whole might be random, but that's akin to saying yards per game are random because they all average out to be around 250 yards per game and anything over or under that is just dumb (un)luck.

It'd be interesting if someone could do something like this for every BCS team (average every conference) to see how the conferences stack up against one another in terms of height and weight at different positions. Probably very time consuming though.

We're sitting on the field, not in the stand, at least that's what I was told at orientation. So there might not be enough space for others on the field, though I don't know why they won't let non students go in the actual stands.

as far back as early June. I'm really excited for it since it'll basically be my first weekend on campus. It's a great idea for the students to have a awesome place to go to watch the game and we apparently get to sit right on the field for it.

I'm an incoming out of state freshman, and applied early action. I got in, but then my friend who applied January (Michigan wasn't his first choice) got waitlisted. I was top 10 in my class and he was like 14th or so. So it's not like there was a large difference in how smart we are. Applying early definitely helps.

that kind of likes the extra spacing? I like being able to devote my full attention to each of the big bowl games, and knowing that it's what everybody else is watching too.

Plus, for me, a game on a weekday night > a game on a friday or saturday night, I guess mostly because I'm a high schooler that likes going out and has never had to consider getting off work to actually go to a game (and completely off topic, but just got my acceptance to Michigan!).

And Iowa State upsets Kansas State (a fairly possible upset, at least), then the predictor thing has us against the winner of Okalahoma/Okalahoma State, assuming all the rest of the matches proceed as expected. I wouldn't mind that.

It wasn't the students who started it, as far as I know. I was in section 20, the opposite end from the students, and the offense was at our end when the delay of game was called. The next play it was our section (or the sections around us) that started it immediately. I'm not claiming to have started it, but my dad and I were definitely some of the first to join in and it didn't start in the student section.

So I just applied to Michigan (sent my Common App in for Early Admission). 33 on the ACT w/ Writing, 35 on the ACT w/o writing (I took it for free at my school without writing and then had to take it with writing). I sent in both scores; I hope that's not bad. Also National Merit Semi-Finalist and 2100 on the SAT.

And my essay to the 500 word prompt (one about what qualities the engineering college has that makes it appealing to me) was, I must say, a very hard essay to write. I'm very happy with my common app one and the other Michigan essay, but that one... wasn't too sure about. I also had no idea how to make it better though so whatever.

Questions: Likelihood of getting in (based on the small amount of information I told you)? (Sorry, I like reassurence). Was sending both the ACT no Writing and ACT with Writing a bad move?